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Joe Allport

Learning Design

From a training need to a course, and how to tell whether it worked.

Two linked pieces of work. The first finds where training is needed from a company's own figures. The second takes one need it found and designs the course for it, with the evaluation planned before the build.

  1. 1Find the Need Concept

    Finding Where Training Is Needed: A Model and a Test

    A data model a learning and development team can keep for deciding where training is needed, tested blind on a messy fake company of 1,470 people with problems planted in it.

    Read the Write-Up Try the Model
  2. 2Design the Course Case Study

    Refunds Done Right: From a Training Need to a Course

    A short corporate course designed with ADDIE: a needs analysis that found two slipping skills, a 30-minute Rise module, four weekly practice sets, and the same check before and after.

    Read the Write-Up Try the Course Design Document (PDF)

The thinking behind both is in the research: the Corporate Series and How People Learn.